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Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Yesterday was supposed to be Opening Day of the 2022 Major League Baseball season, but it was delayed a week (to next Thursday, April 7) by a contentious labor dispute between players and team owners that la... More »
Over the last several months, a homeless encampment near downtown Phoenix has grown to about 1,000 people. More »
The droughts that swept across the western US in 2021 sparked wildfires and damaged crops. But the historic lack of water also had an impact on one of California’s key sources of renewable energy: hydropower. Electricity generation from California hydropower p... More »
Black students at many predominantly white colleges are speaking out about the racial hostility they’ve experienced, which contributes to depression, elevated stress levels, and anxiety. But the students are often not getting the mental health help they need o... More »
The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, i... More »
Can a former Republican governor turned Democrat beat one of the most nation’s most hard-nosed conservatives just by being nice? More »
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Providing a “minimalist definition” of religion as “belief in some kind of transcendental world (that may or may not coincide with our observable physical world) inhabited by spirit beings or forces (that may or may not take an interest in and influence the ph... More »
Imagery related to Dordal’s childhood home (and domiciles in general) is prevalent throughout the 29 poems, making a fitting metaphor to describe the reading experience, which is similar to walking through an old familiar house, turning on the lights in each r... More »
In novels like The Iliac Crest (2017) and The Taiga Syndrome (2018), Mexican author Rivera Garza has displayed an affinity for the mysterious: randomly encountered shadowy strangers and odd settings simultaneously out of place and out of time. This new collect... More »
Ah, ray tracing. Although it’s been around for a long time in the film industry, it’s still a rather perplexing term, especially where video games are concerned. Essentially, it’s a technique that makes light behave in a realistic way. The idea is to make game... More »
